Connie Morgan in the Lumber Camps

BY JAMES B. HENDRYX AUTHOR OF CONNIE MORGAN IN ALASKA, CONNIE MORGAN WITH THE MOUNTED
ILLUSTRATED
G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS NEW YORK AND LONDON
Copyright, 1919 BY JAMES B. HENDRYX
The Knickerbocker Press, New York



WITH an exclamation of impatience, Waseche Bill pushed a formidable looking volume from him and sat, pen in hand, scowling down at the sheet of writing paper upon the table before him. I done give fo' dollahs fo' that dictionary down to Faihbanks an' it ain't wo'th fo' bits!
What's the matter with it? grinned Connie Morgan, glancing across the table into the face of his partner.
The main matteh with it is that it ain't no good. It's plumb full of a lot of wo'ds that no one wouldn't know what yo' was talkin' about if yo' said 'em, an' the common ones a man has got some use fo' is left out.
What word do you want? I learned to spell quite a lot of words in school.